Swoop 1.0.2

Guerilla Space-Warfare

You are a shock trooper in the Alliance Marines. Your specialty is guerilla space-warfare. The current situation is critical. You and your team have been ordered to provide cover fire for the withdrawal of the surviving miners. You must buy them enough time to get away safely. Only three ships are prepped and ready, but reserves are on the way. You can do it. You have to do it, because here come the bugsâ€¦

Swoop's soundtrack is perfect, sounds are great, gameplay is challenging. All in all a good arcade classic that no Mac should be without.

Andre Simonsen, Customer

This is a fabulous game [Swoop]!!! Keep up the great work!

Greg Pranzo, Customer

Swoop is simply marvelous, addictive and a stress reliever. I intend to make Swoop a mind-reflex exercise for all my employees before they start work every morning.

Aainaa-Ridtz A.R., Customer

Hi, I'm just dropping a quick email to mention the fact that Swoop is simply far too amusing, I've spent a large portion of the past few days playing the accursed thing. Thanks.

Brian Grivna, Customer

A very nice arcade game with a great format, decent graphics, and nice interface. Instant classic, very fun to play as well as addictive.

Julian Carroll, Customer

Think Galaxian or Galaga, and that's Swoop. Swoop has been updated with rendered graphics, giving it a shiny 3D look, and it includes the smooth gameplay and fantastic audio you'd expect from anything carrying the Ambrosia marque. Swoop's a fun game- as fun as Maelstrom or Apeiron- and just as basic. If you're looking for pure arcade action bliss and aren't too concerned about complexity and story line, it's a great diversion.

MacCentral

It's classic arcade fun, my friend. That means you don't win, you just keep playing to see how high a score you can get. You get points by blasting little bug like creatures out of the sky with your nifty little pod-like space ship. Every one you take down is worth X points. Sound simple? In concept, it is. But as is Ambrosia's style, there's plenty of little tricks in the bag.

Ambrosia Software strikes gold again when they make this Galaga remake, called Swoop. On a journey to another planet, they found an alien body in a cave, in fear, they destroyed the cave and the body with it. In turn, a signal was cast and it alerted a bug squadron, who in turn grows hostile. Now you must hold them off until help arrives (which is never) A game of survival as you destroy as many bugs as you can before they finally destroy all your ships.

Swoop, just imagine that old arcade space game Galatica on LSD. This excellent game takes all the characteristics of Galatica and pushes them beyond the threshold of excellent. Sit back and enjoy Swoop as your Marine issue ship wipes out those little alien bugs at the top of the screen, with weapons like The Dynamic Duo, Regan Shield and the Tactical Nuke, like's there's no tomorrow.

SharewareJunkies

It takes that great game playing and adds to it with 3D sprites. And cooler music!

Apple Barrel

What is particularly impressive about Swoop is that the game play is perfect. It's difficult, but not impossible, and so you desperately want to improve on your last score.

MacFormat

Galaga is back with Ambrosia Software's latest game, Swoop. This faithful recreation of the original arcade game features rendered sprites, fantastic sound, and solid game play.

ZD Net Australia

The Swoopers are coming to invade, and only you stand between them and Planet Earth.... Well, that's how the story goes, anyway. Zap those outer space bug-aliens with an assortment of weapons, and avoid them and their bullets. Nice sounds and graphics.